autocrate
\ɔ.tɔ.kʁat\
The verdict
“autocrate” is uncommon French (frequency #57,093 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,093
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui, celle dont la puissance ne relève d’aucune autre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-autocrate · autocrate · French
autocrate · rank #57,093 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,093
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH attristée
Nearest frequency peer: attristée (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « autocrate »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- atterrissag…
atterrissages
42,910 corpus weight
- attristée
attristée
42,909 corpus weight
- autocrate
autocrate
42,908 corpus weight
- babouins
babouins
42,906 corpus weight
- baladait
baladait
42,905 corpus weight
- bandai
bandai
42,904 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « autocrate » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | autocrate |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.tɔ.kʁat\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,093 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « autocrate » en français
Rare enough to double-check
autocrate is uncommon French at frequency #57,093 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔ.tɔ.kʁat\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for autocrate in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is autocrate, spelled A-U-T-O-C-R-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Celui, celle dont la puissance ne relève d’aucune autre.
- 2Titre que l’on donnait au tsar ou empereur de Russie, ou à la tsarine, quand c’était une femme qui régnait.
- 3Personnage qui veut imposer sa volonté à tout le monde.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how autocrate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et même au bled el-makhzen, où le Sultan règne en autocrate absolu, les révoltes contre son autorité ne sont pas rares.
Le poste de chef d’état-major général (Dubail) est supprimé. Le chef d’état-major général de l’armée (Joffre) devient, au moins en titre, maître absolu : un autocrate.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).